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    An exemplum is a tale that teaches a moral lesson by an example. The Canterbury Tales displays exempla in “The Prologue‚” “The Pardoner’s Tale‚” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by using each character to teach a moral lesson to the audience. “The Prologue” shows the audience that some people are different from their appearances‚ “The Pardoner’s Tale” teaches the audience that greed is the root of all evil‚ and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” teaches the audience the true nature of women. “The Prologue”

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    push his thoughts on feminism through her attitude and views. Throughout Canterbury Tales‚ she explains her ideas of women and how they are by telling stories of her varies marriages. She elaborates on the negative stereotypes towards women and her thoughts begin to form the idea that she is a feminist. Really‚ the Wife of Bath is far from a feminist; therefore‚ to call her so would be insulting. In the beginning of the her tale‚ the Wife of Bath alludes us to the idea that she agrees with female polygamy;

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    narrative in The Canterbury Tales. What does this narrative device bring to the audience’s experience of the work? What does it allow the author‚ Geoffrey Chaucer‚ to do? Use examples from the readings to support your answer. B. Consider the following quote from the Wife of Bath’s prologue: "Experience‚ though no authority / Were in this world‚ were good enough for me‚ / To speak of woe that is in all marriage." Write an essay in which you discuss whether "The Wife of Bath’s Tale" supports or does

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    A deeper understanding of disruption and identity emerges from considering the parallels between Frankenstein and Blade Runner [copy this essay and you die >:( Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner are both social commentaries that reiterate the zeitgeist of their era; exploring parallel anxieties concerning the disruption of the human condition‚ the human condition being the meaningful interaction between humanity and the world around. Both composers raise this as the salient

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    In The Red Convertible Louise Erdrich uses the foreshadowing and the symbolism of boots and water to show the death of Stephan and the car as a symbol of the loss of a lifelong brotherhood in the last 40 lines. Louise Erdrich uses the symbol of boots to show the weight of the PTSD from war in Stephan’s life to the point where he was alive‚ he was truly not living a healthy life because he was weighted down by the war and his experiences this is shown when he first arrived home and would not leave

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    Queenie 1097300104 E5B Data Analysis First Part Personal information: including the participants’ gender‚ age‚ educational background‚ marital status and monthly income. Gender As Figure 1 showed‚ there were 45% of female participants and 55% of male. The numbers of the participants of each gender were very close. Age The respondents were all my friends on Facebook; as the result‚ the majority (73%) of their age was in the range of 16-20‚ as seen in Figure 2. Figure 1: Gender

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    HIV became known in 1983‚ it was then that scientist and the government became interested in knowing where this epidemic originated from and how. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a lot like other viruses‚ including those that cause the common cold‚ but it is important to know that over time‚ your immune system will become weak as the severity of HIV increases. What HIV does is attack your T cells‚ which help your body fight infections‚ it them takes over them to make its own. A person will only

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    If different people started transporting between the past and the present which raise would mostly like be able to survive easier? Kindred was an interesting book about a black woman‚ named Dana that started transporting between the past and present periods. She would always transport to the past to help a white boy named Rufus before he did something that would kill him. Each time she would transport to help Rufus he would be a few years older and she would be there for a longer period of time

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    “Life is short‚ have an affair” is the slogan for the website AshleyMadison‚ which is an extramarital dating site established in 2001. The business‚ AshleyMadison‚ connects married users to secretly have an affair through this social networking service and claims itself as “the most successful website for finding cheating partners”(Avid Dating Life Inc. ). The website has rapidly grown in popularity in the last couple years‚ reaching an anonymous user base of 16‚350‚000 people recently. However‚

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    The Canterbury tales was written in the late 1380`s and early 1390’s by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ an author who wrote in English at the time when Latin was the standard literary language all over the western Europe. In the fourteenth century England was completely catholic; formal religion was an important factor for everybody‚ and pilgrimages were strongly advocated by the church. The journey from London to the shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury was the best pilgrimage possible in England that represented

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